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Crisis in Greece and the Prospects of SYRIZA
ATHENS—In June 2012, elections in Greece showed that the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) was on the verge of state power. SYRIZA is a coalition of many leftists who oppose the austerity measures
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Greece in Crisis: An Interview with Despina Lalaki
In early January 2013, Doug Enaa Greene of the Boston Occupier interviewed Despina Lalaki on the current situation in Greece. Despina Lalaki is a sociology doctoral candidate at The New School University and Lecturer at the
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“Thank God for the Fascists”: A Dispatch From Weimar, Greece
This article first appeared on Occupy.com. The social-antagonist movements in Athens had to do some serious soul-searching in May 2010. As the economic crisis deepened and the government made its appalling announcement that Greece’s
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Dispatch from Greece: Meeting the “Antagonist” Movements
Published on Occupy.com on January 16, 2013. I arrived in Athens on Christmas Day in the afternoon. As we strolled through the muted streets of Exarcheia, the Athenian neighborhood considered by residents and authorities
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“Eyes With No Memory See Nothing”: The E.U. Pushes Greece to the Brink
This article originally appeared on Occupy.com. The situation in Greece is reaching a point comparable to that of mid-1930s Spain. On the brink of civil war, as a lab rat in the ongoing neoliberal
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Greece: Where Occupations Speak, and Governments Fall
In Greece, longstanding illusions of Europe as a “progressive and democratic” force in the world are being dashed as the neo-liberal and imperialist projects that are European Union and the International Monetary Fund bare
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The ‘De-Politicizing’ of the Olympics
This article is from the Occupied News Wire. It was originally appeared in Issue 15 of the Occupied Times of London. Illustration by Alex Charnley. In Ancient Greece, power was centred around numerous city-states
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Dispatch from Greece: Solidarity Healthcare to Reconstruct Society
HERAKLION, CRETE – I sat down at a small table in a café with two comrades from the Communist Organization of Greece (KOE), Maria and Lefteris. Maria and Lefteris have been pivotal in the
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Dispatch: Poles Within The Coalition of Greece’s Radical Left
The following is a dispatch from Eric Ribellarsi of the Kasama Project, who is currently traveling in Greece. He has documented them on his blog, Winter Has Its End. ATHENS, GREECE - I emerge from
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Dispatch from Greece: Elections Produce a Stalemate – For Now
This is a dispatch from Greece from revolutionary journalist and Kasama Project member Eric Ribellarsi. “Bringing down the memorandum is a national obligation … From Monday, we continue the struggle. The future is not
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